The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time, and DST for short.
During Daylight Saving Time, clocks are turned forward an hour, moving an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. In the U.S., clocks change at 2:00 a.m. local time. In spring, clocks spring forward from 1:59 a.m. to 3:00 a.m.; in fall, clocks fall back from 1:59 a.m. to 1:00 Am.
Beginning in 2007, most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and changing back to standard time on the first Sunday in November.
The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time is to make better use of daylight. DST has been used in the U.S. and in many European countries since World War I. During World War I it was used to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power.
Daylight Saving Time has been fraught with controversy since Benjamin Franklin first conceived of the idea in 1784. Widespread confusion was created during the 1950s and 1960s when each U.S. locality could start and end Daylight Saving Time when it wanted to. One year, 23 different pairs of DST start and end dates were used in Iowa alone. For exactly five weeks each year, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia were not on the same time as Washington D.C., Cleveland, or Baltimore—but Chicago was. And, on one Ohio to West Virginia bus route, passengers had to change their watches seven times in 35 miles! The situation led to millions of dollars in costs to several industries, especially those involving transportation and communications. Extra railroad timetables alone cost the today’s equivalent of over $12 million per year.
The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established a system of uniform (within each time zone) Daylight Saving Time throughout the U.S. and its possessions, exempting only those states in which the legislatures voted to keep the entire state on standard time.
On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007; DST will begin on the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress hopes the change will conserve oil and energy. Congress retains the right to go back to the 2005 Daylight Saving Time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete.
Daylight Saving Time it can be a bad thing or a good thing depending on how you look at it. I know I do not want to go back to the way it was in the 1950s and 1960s. Have a great week
The information in my post came from http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
